Hey all, I'm new at this hobby and have recently started up this new tank that's 4 months old with LPS and SPS. They were doing great for a while and so far the Zoas are thriving. I only have 3 fishes 3 shrimps, 5 red skarlet hermit crabs, 2 nassarius snails, and 7 blue leg crabs at the moment.
Until recently my corals have been shrinking/dying and I think its a Dinoflagellates problem. They're all over the floor and on the rocks and I can't get rid of them. I've done water changes sucking off the sands, and scrapped them off. Just last night I turn off my protein skimmer, and fed them heavily of mysis shrimp and reef roids to get my phosphate and nitrate up. I then lower the lights to below 50%. Is the tank just going through the ugly phase? I'm thinking about doing a 5 day blackout.
Parameter
Alkalinity: 11
Phosphate: 0
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: 0
PH: 8.2
Salinity: 1.025
Magnesium: 1400
Calcium: 410
Until recently my corals have been shrinking/dying and I think its a Dinoflagellates problem. They're all over the floor and on the rocks and I can't get rid of them. I've done water changes sucking off the sands, and scrapped them off. Just last night I turn off my protein skimmer, and fed them heavily of mysis shrimp and reef roids to get my phosphate and nitrate up. I then lower the lights to below 50%. Is the tank just going through the ugly phase? I'm thinking about doing a 5 day blackout.
Parameter
Alkalinity: 11
Phosphate: 0
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: 0
PH: 8.2
Salinity: 1.025
Magnesium: 1400
Calcium: 410